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Outbreak in Asia
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International health officials are being confronted by everyone's worst
nightmare: a highly contagious, potentially fatal disease of unknown
genetic makeup and for which there is currently no antidote or vaccine.
By Saturday, when the sudden spread of a mysterious strain of "atypical"
pneumonia called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) prompted the
World Health Organization (WHO) to issue an emergency travel advisory
for parts of Asia, hundreds of cases had been reported in China, Hong
Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Singapore's Ministry of Health issued an urgent advisory warning...